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Testimony of Aharon Feigenblum, born in 1919 in Włocławek, Poland, about his experiences as a member of the Hashomer Hatzair movement in Kalisz, in Warsaw, and in the movement underground in the Soviet Union

Receives a religious education; joins the Hashomer Hatzair movement; lives in a hakhshara (training center) in Kalisz in 1937; Kol Nidre eve in 1939; three Jews murdered; witness escapes to his parents in Warsaw in November 1939; escapes to Wilno and lives there until June 1940; escapes to Tashkent and Samarkand in 1941; membership in the Hashomer Hatzair underground in the Soviet Union in 1941–1944; involved in the affair surrounding Mordechai Rozman, a leader of the underground, who succumbed to NKVD interrogation and surrendered names of underground members; liberation and return to Poland in December 1945;...

File Number : 13553

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters written before the war and sent to Rivka Shapiro in Eretz Israel by her family members in Dobrzyn, including a memoir book written for her by friends and relatives from 1934 until her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1936 Rivka Shapira was born in Dobrzyn, Poland, 1915; aliya of Rivka to Eretz Israel without family, with help from an Agudat Israel aliya training "kibbutz"; marriage to Yehoshua Hershel Zvi Shapiro in Jerusalem, 1939.

File Number : 1881

Type of Material : Letter, Memoir Book

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish

כרמי שרהTestimony of Sara Arzbet Karmi née Yakubovitz, born in 1926 in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary, about her experiences in the Mateszalka ghetto, Auschwitz, the Teplice camp, and Theresienstadt

German occupation ensues in 1944; deported to the Mateszalka ghetto in 1944; deported to Auschwitz in 1944; taken to the Teplice camp in 1944; works at an armaments and aircraft manufacturing plant; sent to Theresienstadt in 1945; liberated by Red Army forces in 1945; back to Nyiregyhaza; moves to Budapest and joins an Agudath Israel "kibbutz" in 1946; moves (illegally) to Zagreb; waits approx. two months in 1946; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel aboard the Knesset Israel under Aliya Bet auspices; deported to the "winter camp" in Cyprus in 1946; marries in 1947; immigrates to Eretz Israel in 1947; adjusts to...

File Number : 13513

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ann Wigoda née Mendelsohn, born in 1932 in Berlin, about her experiences as a girl in Berlin, her escape to Brussels, and her survival in orphanages and convents in Belgium under a false identity

Childhood in Berlin as the Nazis rise to power; escapes with parents to Brussels in 1938 (illegally); life under German occupation in 1940; father arrested and deported to a camp in 1941; mother falls ill and is taken to the Jewish Weisenbeek hospital near Brussels in 1941; witness placed in a residence at a teachers' college in Laeken in 1942 under a false identity; transferred to a convent in Chimay, spends several months there and is evicted in 1942; placed in the Pensiona des Soeurs de St. Vincent de Paul convent in Obourg, Mons Département; lives in the convcent under a false identity until liberation;...

File Number : 13517

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Memoirs of Natan Nute Zinger Ran, born in Berhomet, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences in as a child in the Slidi Ghetto, Mogilev-Podolski, Kishinev and other places

Memoirs of Natan Nute Zinger Ran, born in Berhomet, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences in as a child in the Slidi Ghetto, Mogilev-Podolski, Kishinev and other places Deportation to Transnistria with his family, 1941; Slidi Ghetto life; death of his parents; placed in an orphanage in Mogilev-Podolski, spring 1943; life in children's homes and with foster families in Kishinev, Odessa and Chernovitz. Aliya to Israel, 1948; The file includes: Experiences of his wife, Pnina (Mizrachi) Ran, born in Tiberias, Mandatory Palestine, 1934.

File Number : 8315

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Chana Malik, born in Moisei, Romania, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Viseu Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Gelsenberg, Sommerda and other camps

Memoirs of Chana Malik, born in Moisei, Romania, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Viseu Ghetto and in Auschwitz, Gelsenberg, Sommerda and other camps Life in Moisei. Re-annexation to Hungary; deportation to the Viseu Ghetto, 1944; Viseu Ghetto life; Auschwitz camp life; Gelsenberg camp life; Sommerda camp life.

File Number : 8247

Type of Material : Memoirs, Interview(s)

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Anatol Krakowski regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kailis and as a partisan in the forests

Memoirs of Anatol Krakowski regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kailis and as a partisan in the forests Life in the Vilna Ghetto; life in Kailis until September 1943; escape from the ghetto; life as a partisan in the surrounding forests under the command of Abba Kovner; rescue of Jewish partisans arrested by the NKVD by Professor Rebelski after the liberation of Vilna; establishment of an orphanage in Vilna by Professor Rebelski, a senior physician in the Red Army. Also in the file: Introduction written by Anatol Krakowski's wife, Nahama Krakowski, including translations from French to Hebrew...

File Number : 8193

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : French

Testimony of Michael Cahn, born in Fulda, Germany, 1924, regarding his experiences in Fulda and in England

Testimony

Testimony of Michael Cahn, born in Fulda, Germany, 1924, regarding his experiences in Fulda and in England His childhood in Fulda in a Zionist family; his father serves as the rabbi of the Hesse region. Attack on the witness and his father by the SD; his father's success to get the attackers to flee, 1931; Nazi rise to power, 1933; displays of antisemitism; witness joins the Ezra movement, 1934; giving of an exit permit to Mandatory Palestine to his parents, which is valid for 60 days, in order to advance the emigration of Jews, April 1937; permit given to his parents by the Gestapo to arrive to an Agudat...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bracha Ella (Kuttner) Erman, born in Putnok, Hungary, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Putnok Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bremen, Bergen-Belsen and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Bracha Ella (Kuttner) Erman, born in Putnok, Hungary, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Putnok Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bremen, Bergen-Belsen and other places Her family's life in Putnok. German Army occupation of Putnok [March 1944]; establishment of the Putnok Ghetto [1944]; labor in a block factory; deportation to Auschwitz via Miskolc; selection; transfer to Bremen; camp life including labor clearing rubble; transfer to Oberhuetten Ag [?], with the approach of the front; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, one month later; liberation, one week later. Typhus disease; hospitalization; move on a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam (Toder) Offen, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1939, regarding her experiences in Antwerp, in hiding in Rumst, in hiding in Antwerp, in hiding in Liege, and in Brussels and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam (Toder) Offen, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1939, regarding her experiences in Antwerp, in hiding in Rumst, in hiding in Antwerp, in hiding in Liege, and in Brussels and other places German Army occupation of Antwerp, May 1940; unsuccessful attempt by her family to escape to France, 1940; life in Antwerp including anti-Jewish decrees; her family members hide in Rumst; move to a hiding place in Antwerp in the home of a non-Jewish woman, a member of the Flemish underground, "The White Brigade", autumn 1943; life in hiding including the holidays; move to a hiding place in Antwerp, in the home...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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